She woke hours later to find Riddick gone, he had moved back up to the pilot's chair. The autopilot was still on and he was just staring out into space. She walked up next to his chair, "what are we going to do now?"
"That's what I've been trying to figure out." She sat down Indian style on the floor beside his chair. "Was I still your first?" It took him a second to figure out what she was talking about but it dawned on him that she was speaking about her kissing him earlier. "You kissed me before kid." "I mean on the mouth." "Yeah kid."
"Riddick, you should have gone out sometimes, you should have had a good time every once in the while. I had a boyfriend, Imam even stopped and talked to a very nice lady at one of the markets, I think he was about to ask her out. I hope the fact that you had to take care of us, had to keep an eye on us didn't keep you from having a girlfriend."
"You want to know why I have never kissed anyone before? Because I have never had a girlfriend before." He turned to face her. "No one wants to date the ex-con, no one wants to date the guy with a shine job. Girls like the bad boys but only up to a certain point. They don't want to date the guy who they heard stabbed a girl while he was screwing her. So the reason why I have never kissed a girl before is because the kind of women I know are the kind you pick up off a corner. They didn't want to kiss me and I defiantly didn't want to kiss any of them. And all the while that we were all living together I didn't do anything with anyone because I didn't want you and Imam to think badly of me, to be ashamed of me. So now you know." Riddick had never opened up to her this much before; she never knew he felt so bad about himself before. She got up on to her knees to be able to look him directly in the eye. "I have always loved your eyes. You are a beautiful person inside and out Riddick and it makes me happy to know I am the only one who has ever kissed you." With that she got up and went to the bathroom to take a shower. Riddick turned to the computer to try and figure out the best planet to make there next home.
That night she slept in her own bed on the other wall. "You know you're supposed to do something with your lips when you kiss someone. And you're supposed to close your eyes," she said while she was drifting off to sleep. "I know that, I told you that you caught me by surprise." "Whatever, Riddick," she replied, quietly giggling to herself. She was teasing him and he didn't like it. "I know how to do more stuff than you'll ever know little girl." "You don't know what I know, Riddick." "Kid, go to sleep." "It's okay Riddick, like they say, practice makes perfect." "Where is Imam when I need him," Riddick thought.
"Riddick, did you really stab a girl while you were having sex with her?" she asked a few minutes later. "She was a merc. Her team busted in on us with guns. So yeah, I killed them and then I killed her and then I got the heck out of there." He waited for a response but he soon realized that she had finally fallen asleep.
Riddick finally found a planet to settle on. It was a very prosperous city so Riddick was able to get a job as a bodyguard for various people. He was very good at it as most of the time he just had to look at someone to keep them from doing anything crazy. It paid well and as long as he kept them safe none of his employers asked any questions. He and Jack had a small but nice apartment. Riddick took the guest room and gave Jack the master bedroom at the end of the hall with its own private bathroom.
"Riddick, open the door," they had only been on the planet for a few months but he and Jack had seemed to fit right in. The rich kids on this planet seemed to only know how to go out and party and Jack was right there with them. The planet didn't have too bad of a crime problem, you could go out at anytime of the day or night and find people out enjoying themselves. Even though Riddick never really got too worried about her he always waited until he heard her open the front door to make sure she had gotten home safe. Usually when she got home she just went straight to her room and fell into bed. The fact that she was at his door now worried him. He got up and unlocked the door. There she stood, in barely nothing and he stood in just some sweat pants. She didn't look hurt. "What's wrong kid?" "I need some aspirin and there is none out here. Do you have any?" "Yeah, it's in the top drawer," he answered as he headed back to his bed. She came in and found the pills, despite the fact that there was hardly any light in the room.
He had gotten back in the bed and was trying to finally go to sleep when he felt her get in the bed with him. "What do you think you're doing?" "I don't feel good; I just need to lie down for a second." He was going to argue but he could already tell she was falling asleep beside him. He woke about and hour later to find that Jack had her arm wrapped around his waist and had put one of her legs over his. This was too close for her to be to him. He knew she was asleep but somehow had the feeling that she was touching him on purpose. In one swift motion he was out of the bed and carrying a still sleeping Jack into her room where he unceremoniously dropped her in her own bed. She woke up with a cry and before she knew what had just happened Riddick turned and left, shutting the door behind him. If looks could kill, Riddick would have been dead.